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| Munich gunman inspired by rightwing Breivik: police |
| 2016-07-24 |
| [THELOCAL.DE] The lone teenager who shot dead nine people in a gun rampage in Munich was "obsessed" with mass killers such as Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik and had no links to the Islamic State group, police said Saturday. "Well, yeah, he was a Moslem mass murderer and not a right-wing Nazi, but he was inspired by a right-wing Nazi," Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on the continent in just over a week, after the black-clad gunman went on a shooting spree at a shopping centre on Friday evening before turning the gun on himself. "There is absolutely no link to the Islamic State," Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said. He said the assault was a "classic act by a deranged person" and described an individual "obsessed" with mass shootings. He said German investigators saw an "obvious link" between Friday's killings and Breivik's massacre of 77 people in a bomb attack in Oslo and a shooting rampage on the nearby island of Utoya exactly five years earlier. Most of the victims in Friday's attack were foreigners. Munich prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch said the 18-year-old German-Iranian student - named as David Ali Sonboly - had suffered depression, while media reports said he had undergone psychiatric treatment. The teenager had 300 rounds in a rucksack when he targeted the busy Olympia shopping mall, just minutes away from the flat he shared with his family, according to authorities. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 BBC has been scrubbing the shooter's first name from all reporting. Can't have ANY links to islam, can we? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-07-24 13:11 |
| #4 Gives islamofascism a new twist |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-07-24 12:17 |
| #3 "There is absolutely no link to the Islamic State," Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said. OK. No Islamic State link. Howzabout regular Islamic links? A handgun and 300 rounds seems a bit "interesting". |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-07-24 08:39 |
| #2 Lies! Damn Lies! Munich gunman inspired by Zionism!!! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-24 06:30 |
| #1 inline is right on point -no matter what, it is some white guys fault |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2016-07-24 01:58 |